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All Eminem refrences and memes aside, my mom’s spaghetti was always the pinnacle of comfort food. What beats a warm, hearty bowl of spaghetti? As an added bonus my mom’s recipe is simple, cheap, and jumbo-sized enough to feed a family of four for days. For a recipe that will keep you feeling warm and fuzzy and won’t fail you even when your palms are sweaty look no further.

Whenever my boyfriend and I go out and see spinach and artichoke dip on a menu we have to get it. We’ve had it almost every way a person can have, but one day I had the idea to put it somewhere we previously never dared dream to, on a pizza.

Although my claim to fame is southern food with attitude, I have a love for curries that runs as deep as my favorite bowl. One of my favorite curry combinations is the classic coconut and tomato. On weeknights when I need something light, simple, but with a large depth of flavor I turn to this dish every single time.

This week’s Rosh Hashannah celebration kicked off the Jewish High Holidays season. For a long time I have been wanting to post a Jewish recipe. I mean it is my culture after all. The main problem was that all the Jewish recipes I know are secret family recipes, see the brisket in the above photo. This year I wanted to stretch myself to come up with my own Jewish inspired recipe so I could finally share. I landed on everything bagel roasted potatoes.

I feel like anyone who’s followed me for a while had to have known that a chicken and waffles recipe was coming eventually. How could it not? I consider chicken and waffles to be the ultimate not only brunch, but possibly southern dish as well. You have your salty, sweet, crispy, soft, and juicy all in one plate.

For my recipe I took inspiration from Michelin starred Dusek’s in Chicago

I recently received some gluten free noodles and wanted to make something new. I wanted something that felt light and fresh since to me gluten free puts out a healthy vibe. After lots of thought I couldn’t get the idea of a blt out of my head.

A fact about me: Dinner parties are my ish. I love attending them, I love hosting them, but most of all I love making unreasonable amounts of food for them. One time I attended a potluck for the opening of a local music venue and had to use a laundry basket to carry in all the food I made. Seriously. So take it from this potluck princess, fried macaroni and cheese makes the perfect party bite.

Let’s be honest, do I really need to say why spicy bourbon caramel ribs are delicious and a great idea? I didn’t think so. This was a recipe that I threw together for a potluck I hosted, and I couldn’t get enough. For the recipe I used baby back ribs, but spare ribs would be just as amazing.

At my day job there’s a man who regularly brings my coworkers and me produce fresh from his garden. At first he brought tomatoes that I turned into soup. Most recently he brought us more banana peppers and green chilis than I knew what to do with.

When flipping through chef crush of mine, Hugh Acheson’s, The Chef and the Slow Cooker one page made me stop in my tracks. The recipe for confit tomatoes. The term confit as it applies to meat means to slowly cook an item in its own fat. For vegetables the term has come to mean very slowly poaching in massive amounts of olive oil with aromatics. Either way the end result is delicious.